About Low Tech Combat

Welcome to Low Tech Combat - A Web 2.0 Magazine that examines, explores, aggregates, discusses and posts Videos, Articles, News stories and other ramblings about all aspects of Self Protection, Reality Based Self Defence (RBSD), Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), conditioning and all other related areas of Low Tech Combat.

Beginnings

I am interested in spreading the concept of Low Tech Combat. I have been practising martial arts and self protection for over 15 years now. I began my journey with Rhee Taekwondo which I did for 5 years with Paul Corbett and achieved first degree black belt. From here I studied Hapkido for about four years under Geoff Booth. Through Geoff Booth, I was introduced to both Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Ray Floro's system of edged and impact weapon defence. I have been practising these two systems on and off ever since which I do to this day.

I enjoy getting together with friends from Muay Thai and wrestling backgrounds and training with them regularly as well. I also read widely on topics such as the various martial arts, self protection, awareness, personal security, the classics such as the Book of Five Rings, strength and conditioning and the physical and psychological effects of combat.

The Purpose

This site is an outlet and allows me to write on topics I feel quite passionate about. The entire area of Low Tech Combat and the life long study of this will always be a way of life for me. My writing on this site is but one avenue of contributing to the developing and cheerleading of functional, realistic and effective training, the likes of which has never been so prolific in the world and so widely practised as it is today.

The evolution of these combat sports such as boxing, muay thai, brazilian jiu jitsu (bjj), wrestling, judo and mixed martial arts (MMA) is without precedent and represents a true renaissance in the evolution of inter personal combat. Combined with reality based self defence (RBSD) and knowledge of awareness and key indicators of likely attackers and more, together covers the full spectrum of conflict one is likely to encounter on the streets or homes today.

I also try to keep up to date on current affairs. You will also find News stories collected from around the world relating to assaults, robberies and anything else that is relevant in aiding us all to ensure our perceptions of what attacks are likely out there are based on reality. Ive travelled to Europe, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. I do enjoy travelling whenever I can and find it to be a very rewarding and eye opening experience.

Why Write Online?

This site is an easy, cheap and convenient method for me to communicate and present my ideas which is important to me as my lifestyle is not routine and convenience and ease of publication are vital. I first tried it when I discovered I could immediately start a blog with my google account log on which I already had. And so it began.

Further information

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• The Featured Posts which are the main articles relating to Low Tech Combat,
• The latest Tweets from the Low Tech Combat Twitter stream,
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• Links to other sites I regularly read,
• A Google search bar which searches the entire site,
  
• Label cloud which enables you to browse posts by labels/categories and
• Much More!

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To get started you may want to begin by checking out my posts,

Full Spectrum of Low Tech Combat,

Traditional Martial Arts v Modern Systems or

What is the most likely attack on the street?.

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